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Freshman Sarita Mye
at tho annual pageant
Ballroom. Celebration
I continues tonight with
the bedroom.
'Gandl
LongBy
Doug Bell
Sir Richard Attenboroi
over. "Gandhi" is on the s
worth the effort and expei
mixed feelings.
Attenborough commits
when an Indian acquainta
of Mohandas Gandhi,
philosophy of "peaceful i
India's history.
Attenbor ough's enthui
rejections from producei
from Indian officials, th<
portantly, the question of
MEANWHILE, ATTE
been limited to acting, be,
host of screenwriters bu
sharpened his directoria
Winston" (1973), "A Brii
(1978).
Gradually, he courted
camp. A young Indira Ga
had a minor hand in the p
for information and broa
in 1980.
"Gandhi" opens with a1
its necessary incomplete
4 ~ A r
cuuiu iun accuuiu ior ever
The tone of the introduc
in me. If the director af
formal, encyclopedic att
being laborious, heavy-ha
THE MOVIE proper b
and funeral. While the n
flowery tribute by work
ascends to stratospheric
ceremony.
My first instinct was th
would not go unchecked, j
rest of the film to shatt
timoniousness. One migl
the seamy underside to
some unsavory details ?
trace of mystery and hum
Attenborough doesn't s<
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juiiii orney are conient v
in the pages of history a
major events of Gandhi'
even to the point of shootii
actual event.
Attenborough's goal is
much as possible. But i
futile? It is impossible f
person. The artist's only
lies in his ability to offer
historical figure. Neither
to stick out his neck so far
THIS ALL boils down tc
movie. It is, however, a v
an aesthetic level, but or
involving.
Attenborough's acting <
on the subject. Performs
cellent to sublime; V
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Sunday night in Russell House
of Black Observance Month
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awaited film s
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screen. As to whether or not it wag
lse ($22 million), this reviewer has
Ki himself to the project in 1962,
nee urged him to read a biography
the inspirational leader whose
resistance" changed the course of
iiasm survived many obstacles:
s, delays from financiers, hostility
3 death of associates and most im
whom to cast in the title role.
NBOROUGH, whose career hac
gan to produce and direct. He keDt s
sy on the Gandhi project while he
il skills on such films as "Young
dge Too Far" (1976) and "Magic'
the Indian government over to his
ndhi (no relation to the Mahatma)
roject when she served as minister
dcasting. Production finally began
written prologue that apologizes for
ness, as if Attenborough is sorry he
y minute of his idol's existence.
tion signaled an immediate caution
>proached his subject with such a
itude, how could the movie avoid
nded and dull!
egins with Gandhi's assassination
lartyr is eulogized in tribute after
I leaders of the time, the camera
heights to reveal the scope of the
at such grandiloquent hero-worship
iGrhans At.tP>nhnrriiicrV?
J >ruuiu UDC IIIC
er this great-men-of-history sane
it hope the film would scratch intc
undercut the historical pose with
anything that might give Gandhi a
lane fallibility.
ee it that way. He and screenwriter
vith the super-human Gandhi found
nd biography. They dramatize the
s career with painstaking fidelity,
ng a scene on the anniversary of the
to re-create the "real" Gandhi as
sn't any such attempt ultimately
or an artist to imitate the "real"
hope for significant achievement
a personal "interpretation" of the
Attenborough nor Briley is willing
> one thing: "Gandhi" is not a great
ery good one. It might be bereft on
i a dramatic level, it is thoroughly
jxperience makes him an authority
?nces in "Gandhi" range from ex
Theater
By John Vaughan
Workshop Theatre tonight o
comedy that received a popula
But Workshop's production
throwback to the original sh
earlier.
Written by Paul Osborn, "fl
staged in New York by Joshu
revived three years ago, se
Awards.
But Workshop's set, designee
one used in the modern Br<
"revives" the 1920s as the play
THE COMEDY is the story c
age and their quirky families
strates how family relations!:
even after 50 or 60 years.
Directed by USC's Ann D
Drucilla Brookshire, Jo Mer
Nancy Vosburgh as the si:
Hungerford and Robert Steinn
fhn fKrnn mowifkrl o*n
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Steve Miller and Mary Jeffc
not-so-young lovers.
"Morning's at Seven" will r
formances at 8 p.m. except fo
There will be no performances
for the general public and $4.5
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actually may be more a
ow that played four decades *
Morning's at Seven" was first
la Logan in 1939. When it was
iveral performers won Tony
J by Mary Garvin, is unlike the
>adway revival ? instead it
's time frame.
>f four sisters well into middle5.
Playwright Osborn demonlips
can change dramatically
reher, the play will feature
jgedoht, Nancy Truluck and
sters. Johnny DeHart, Bob
leyer will portray husbands of
oat will appear as the comic,
un through Feb. 13, with per- i
r a matinee Feb. 13 at 3 p.m.
i Feb. 6 or 7. Tickets are $5.50 a
0 for students, senior citizens o!
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oles in Workshop Theatre's "Morni
nd military personnel. For more
ffice at 799-6551.
:ks artistic gr
film revi
The supporting cast reads like
inema," including Sir John Mills
ohn Gielgud. Candice Bergen
abdued performance as the
hotographer and adventuress, Ms
harleson and Martin Sheen also aj
Briley's script is as straightforw
pisode from "Masterpiece Theati
arrative unfolds in flashback,
ifficulties in overcoming prejud
ducated lawyer in South Africa. I
f his "peaceful resistance" phil<
ecomes the credo that wins India':
GANDHI HIMSELF rises so h
steem that he can quell any i
ireatening to fast to death.
Though it calculates and pre
esponse, the script serves as a
'randhi's philosophy. A scene in
Dllowers advance quietly to thi
arrison, knowing full well they
lubs, so deeply affected Sheen tl
ntire salary to charity.
Anvone who's sp*?n th? mmno
notivation. The little brown man
ffecton people.
And, as Ben Kingsley plays
allowers in theaters everywhere.
KINGSLEY'S PERFORMANCE
ctor conveys Gandhi's moods wi
ase. In dramatic moments, he in
omparable to James Stewart's
/ashington"; in lighter moments
nd exotic asE.T.
As an actor Kinociou
, ***Ujr V C.
helming debut. He may fall into
luni in the 1930s, playing nothing
ever establishing his own consii
ingsley portray another historica
had better be Attila the Hun.
Ian Charleson seems to be stuck
laying a part similar to his Eri<
ire."
MANY PEOPLE have expresse
lm's "prettiness," as if this were i
But Attenborough is no camera s
>sy cinematography proves nothi
aid, "Beauty in cinema is the i
leans"; prettiness has nothing to c
If one wants to see some trulv h*
lis reviewer would recommend
ovies ("Patnther Panchali," "Woi
Still, I recommend that you see
storical re-creation, it is enterta
ildly inspiring. It moves faster I
is reviewer can recall.
But don't be hoodwinked by go
roduction values into believing it
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igins
Bhearse their comedic
ng's at Seven."
information, call the box
eaumss
iew I
a "Who's Who in British
>, Trevor Howard and Sir
turns in an appealingly
famous Life magazine
irgaret Bourke-White. Ian j I
ppear. i
ard and uncluttered as an
re". After the funeral,'Ihe |
beginning with Gandhi's
lice as a young, Britisht
follows the development !
osophy, which eventually
5 independence.
ugh in his countrymen's j
nici udi aunt; smipiy oy j
digests every emotional
marvelous platform for
which waves of Gandhi's I
b gates of a barricaded 9
will be beaten by British
hat the actor donated his
can understand Sheen's
in the loincloth had that
him, Gandhi is gaining
S is a rare wonder. The I
th utmost conviction and
stills an emotional fervor
in "Mr. Smith Goes to H
he seems as cute, fragile B
r recover from this over- I
the trap that caught Paul I
; but historical giants and 9
stent personality. Should
I figure in the near future,
in his priest's robes, here S
c Liddell in "Chariots of
d their admiration of the
nstant proof of greatness.
tylist and, Billy Williams'
ng. Critic David Thomson
ntegrity of meaning and
lo with it.
tautiful films about India, H
I wnjr ui oaijfajH XVtty 5
idofApu"). I
"Gandhi." As a straight
ining, involving and even
than a 31/2 -hour movie I
od photography and epic
a great work of cinematic fl